Bees

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions (9)
  2. 7. Colorful blooms that grow on plants (7)
  3. 9. The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant (6)
  4. 11. Oval foods laid by hens (4)
  5. 12. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. Female ruler of a kingdom (5)
  2. 2. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  3. 3. The color of a banana (6)
  4. 5. A movable organ for flying (plural) (5)
  5. 6. A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees (5)
  6. 8. The color of coal (5)
  7. 10. A structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young (4)